Nearly 25 years ago, seven inmates broke free from a maximum-security prison in South Texas. A weeks-long manhunt ensued, ...

The British government said criminals could earn earlier release under a new program to cut the prison population, citing ...

The Texas Prison Rodeo started in 1931 and featured prison inmates taking part in events each October at a usually packed arena.

An Austin federal judge has declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional." The bill faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

Texas — The district attorney’s office sentenced two Texas Syndicate gang members to multiple decades in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine and heroin. The Southern ...

The Texas House passed Friday a bill requiring prisons to have air conditioning by the end of 2032. Lawmakers passed 79-39 House Bill 3006 by Terry Canales, D-Edinburg. If the Legislature or the ...

If statistics were kept on the number of gavels broken in the Texas Legislature each year ... universities and other public entities can purchase the prison-made wares. The program’s website ...

Then I was put into prison by my own country." Maldonado-Passage is currently incarcerated at a federal medical center in North Texas because he is now fighting prostate cancer. He had been ...

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved a number of environmental regulations penalties Thursday, including for two violations at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility. The ...